| Description |
xv, 405 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Pt.1. Understanding competitive managed care -- The emerging competitive managed care marketplace -- Perspectives and evidence on efficiency in managed care organziations -- Pt.2. Private sector initiatives and responses -- Group purchasing in the managed care marketplace -- Exercising purchasing power for prevention -- The challenge of measuring and monitoring quality -- The future of the health professions under managed care -- Inside the system: the patient-physician relationship in the era of managed care -- Pt.3. Public sector initiatives and responses -- Ensuring competeition in the market for HMO services -- State-sponsored health insurance purchaing cooperatives: California's "HIPC" -- Managing the managed care revolution: states and the new Medicaid -- The challenges of implementing market-based reform for public clients -- Messing with Medicare: markets and politics in the 104th Congress -- Lessons for the United States: Britain's experience with managed competition -- Conclusion: the potential and limits of competitive managed care. |
| Subject |
Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Economic aspects. |
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United States. |
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Managed care plans (Medical care) |
| Added Author |
Wilkerson, John D.
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Devers, Kelly J.
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Given, Ruth S.
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| ISBN |
0787903094 alkaline paper |
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